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[wickedflea]

I got two cans of boiled peanuts at a BBQ place today. (Yes! In Connecticticutland!) The BBQ wasn't all that, but I'll remember that the place is there in case I ever get really desperate. But I'm inordinately excited about my peanuts.

I'm a cracker.

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[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Cracker pride! I'm on a one-man mission to strip the word of its power by embracing it. ;)

[m-fallenangel.livejournal.com]

Oh, for the love of the gods...

It's GOOD to have words that are fight starters. Saves people the bullshit posturing and goading.

Call me a cracker, it's on. Same for every ethnic gropup. I LIKE the fact that there's one word for pretty much every group that will let us cut through the sensitivity crap and just throw down.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Eh, leave it to me not to be up on things that are good for starting fights.

I dunno. Maybe if someone called me a cracker in a truly derisive fashion, I'd take it differently. But no one ever has, so it's hard to say. I'd probably be so taken aback that I wouldn't say much of anything. Actually, that did happen once--I got into it with some guy in traffic, and he called me a redneck from Mississippi (this was in CT, but I still had my MS plates on the car). I dunno, what am I gonna do, fight him because he thinks all whites from MS are rednecks? That's his preconception that has nothing to do with me personally, so all I can really do is laugh. (But I am aware, of course, that such words DO have power for some people, and that's why I don't throw them around except toward myself.)

[m-fallenangel.livejournal.com]

I completely get that. I'm WAY past the point of ever looking to get into a fight; that's why I never use flashpoint terms, myself.

I think just about everyone has at least one, though.